Leon to San Juan Del Sur

I did find that $100 that I thought I had lost. The bad news is that I was pickpocket in an ALN campaign rally. Nat and I were on our way to a bar and rather than go an extra block, we decided to walk through a campaign rally. It was a surreal scene. The street was so smokey that you couldn´t see all the way aacrossit. There was a guy dancing with a box on his head that was all wired up with fireworks. They would shoot off in random directions right into the crowd. I was doing my best to avoid being hit and not ffocusingenough on my pockets. I´m out $250 and a bank card.

The depresion wore off the next day and we headed for San Juan Del Sur. We had to pass through Managua which really is hell. Our bus driver dropped us off and followed us out to a taxi to make sure we didn´t get robbed. When we got out of the taxi at the terminal, three guys hurried us along to our bus telling us it was dangerous along the way.

Shortly after leaving town, the traffic slowed down for an accident with scores of police. We later found out that a truck had crashed launching bananas all over the hiwhighwayd revealing the 135kg of cocaine that was hidden uder them.

San Juan Del Sur is a tranquil beach town. Things are more expensive here and I´m not racist, but there are maybe too many white people. Fortunately ran into Katrina and Liz and Chad will meet us here in a few days.

Yesterday was my first day of surfing and I did better than I would have expected. I caught a few waves but I am in terrible shape and tired quickly. The beach we surfed really was a sight. There was a area to catch small waves and there were some that were at least 25 ft high where the pros really ripped it up. A couple of day´s rest and I will be back at it.

Tomorrow, we will go fishing. I´m pretty excited about that. Things are easy going here. I haven´t ran into one scetchy person and even if there was someone bad here, there is a lot of security with shotguns around. The nicest thing about this town is that only two guys have male touched me to death. Ever since Shaun told me about being triple male touched, I´m a little touchey about being touched.